| ▲ | Ygg2 5 days ago | |
You can design furniture without nails or screws. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_carpentry Reason Japanese carpenters do or did that is that sea air + high humidity would absolutely rot anything with nail and screw. No furniture is really designed from a single tree, though. They aren't massive enough. I agree with overall sentiment. But the analogy is higly flawed. You can't compare physical things with software. Physical things are way more constrained while software is super abstract. | ||
| ▲ | oldsecondhand 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
> Reason Japanese carpenters do or did that is that sea air + high humidity would absolutely rot anything with nail and screw. The other reason was that iron was very expensive in Japan as they had only low quality iron ore. | ||
| ▲ | jama211 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
I can and will compare them, analogies don’t need to be perfect so long as they get a point across. That’s why they’re analogies, not direct perfect comparisons. I very much enjoy the Japanese carpentry styles that exist though, off topic but very cool. | ||